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Spccificaticn oi .tetters Patent.

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To all wi'wm'it may concern: Y

Be it known that we, SAMUEL lWCCOMB, a citizen of the United States, and JAMES B.

CCOMB,-,a subject both residing at New York, in the county of Bronx andv State of New York, have invented anew anduseilul Washing Compound, of which the following is a. full, clear, and eX- act specification.

whitening clothes as well as this kind which may be used on carpets and rugs made with interior dyes without danger of the colors running. It has been found that the use of hot-water in connection with our formula coveredin U. St, Patent No. 1,172,297, issued February 22,1916, has a tendency to make the colors run on carpets and rugs made with theinferior dyes now available in this country owing to the European war, whereas cold water used with the new "ormula given herein does not have this detrimental eiiect.

- Another object is to provide a washing compound which may be used with soap instead of having soap incorporated therein.

and give thev same beneficial results. The omission of the soap from the compound makes it possible to supply the public with the cleaning compound at a, greatly reduced cost owing to the reduction in transportation charges due to the decrease in bulk.

Our present composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated are placed in a rotary mixer and the latter cedarleaves are then of the King of England,

This invention relates to detergents or cleaning or v the resulting carpets and rugs, and for stains and disagreeable odors iratented spread, this.. I Application filed filepteinber 13, 1916. Serial No.

permitted to revolve very rapidly for about 1 three minutes. The

' dropped in and the mixer allowed to rotate for another minute or so, or the whole be shortened into the glycerin and oil of so process of mixing may, j space of three minutes. L

"The rapid rotation of the mixer causes the ingredients to become uniformly mixed and f leaves the mass in powdered form. For use, one ounce of the above com-pound isdissolved in one gallon of cold water, and

the following manner: The-soap isvdipped into the solution and rubbed over the article. to be cleaned, and while still damp additional quantities of the solution are applied solution used with a cake U White soap for cleaning carpets and rugs 1n" 1 with a cloth by which both the solution and soap are rubbed well into the fabric After being'allowed to dry, the article is in just as good condition as whenthe formula given in our Patent 1,172,297 is used, and the cold solution applied with rate the article suiiiciently to cause the colors to run even when inferior dyes have been used in making the article, as might result from the use oi the hot solution applied more lavishly with a brush according to said patent.

When the compound is to be used for washing clothes, one ounce thereof together with about a cake of soap is added to a wash boiler full of clothes and boiled for 15 or- 20 minutes. The clothes are then rinsed in the usual wayand hung out to dry. There is absolutely no necessity for rubbing the clothes on a wash board, and the wear and tear is therefore greatly reduced. The compound when used in this way not only saves time and labor but gives superior re sults by removing stains, and all dirt, leaving the snow.

We ,havediscovered, that our patented compound, by the elimination of soap can be dissolved in cold watenand used cold for cleaning, without forming a jelly, and give better results, than if used hot with soap in it. By the use of the above formula minus the soap, and by using the above formula, as above described, no likelihood of jellify- ,ing is present, as would occur, if our patclothes as white as a cloth does not satudisagreeable odors ented. formula was mixed with hot water i Our present formula which contains no soap,

as well as the use of hot Water in our patented formula, and the use 01 cold water in the above tormula, he clearly understood. By the use of cold water in mixing the above formula We are thus overcoming the likel1hood of SOIQfldlD interior aresent day l t) d as used in colorin effects on ru -s and carpets, etc.,- and the use of cold water, theretore, becomes of great beneficial convenience.

We have, further, discovered that in applying the above formula or cleaning compound by means of a cloth moistened in the above formula, that it is quite. impossible to saturate acarpet or rug" carelessly or unintentionally, as could easily happen by the careless use of a brush dipped in the prepared solutionvof our aboi'e formula.

All of which is made possible by eliminating the soap in. 00.1. patented. formula. fron'i the above formula 5111C. using soap separate from the other ingredients, and as is herein before described.

Having hus described our invention, what we claim as ncv and desire to secure by letters Patent of the United State is 1. it compouml in. powdered lei-m, eonsiri l ing of borax, soda asll, 'ultramariue blue, glycerin and oil of cedar leaves.

2. A compound in powdered foul, eon-- sisting of the following; ingreditaus in substantially the proportions named via: ('3 lbs. of borax, 3-1. lbs. of soda ash, lb. 01? ultramarine blue, 8 0.1. oi glycerin, and ox. ol'

oil of cedar leaves.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification.

SAIVIU EL a 'cCOlilB.

AME-S lilac/OF. ll.

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